Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

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Caroline Dunn, Elizabeth Carney
Springer, 21 трав. 2018 р. - 199 стор.
Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope—from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Asia Minor—these essays trace patterns of influence often disguised by narrower studies of government studies and officials. Contributors highlight the theme of dynastic loyalty by focusing on the roles and actions of individual royal women, examining patterns within dynasties, and considering what factors generated loyalty and disloyalty to a dynasty or individual ruler. Contributors show that whether serving as the font of dynastic authority or playing informal roles of child-bearer, patron, or religious promoter, royal women have been central to the issue of dynastic loyalty throughout the ancient, medieval, and modern eras.
 

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Introduction Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
1
Kings Daughters Sisters and Wives Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy
18
From Family to Politics Queen Apollonis as Agent of DynasticPolitical Loyalty
31
Queens and Their Children Dynastic DisLoyalty in the Hellenistic Period
49
On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severuss Failed Siege of Hatra
67
Dynasty or Family? Tenth and Eleventh Century Norwegian Royal Women and Their Dynastic Loyalties
87
Prince Pedro A Case of Dynastic Disloyalty in Fifteenth Century Portugal?
98
The Tragic Queen Dynastic Loyalty and the Queenships of Mary Queen of Scots
111
Embodied Devotion The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France 15101575
123
Queenship and the Currency of Arts Patronage as Propaganda at the Early Stuart Court
138
Dynastic Loyalty and Allegiances Ottoman Resilience During the Seventeenth Century Crisis
151
For Empire or Dynasty? Empress Elisabeth Christine and the Brunswicks
165
French Historians Loyalty and Disloyalty to French Monarchy Between 1815 and 1848
181
Index
191
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Caroline Dunn teaches history at Clemson University, USA, and is the author of Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery c. 1100–1500 (2012).
Elizabeth Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University, USA. Her most recent book is King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy (2015).

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